Gujarat govt to open another 155 ‘meal for Rs. 5 centres’ for laborers

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister will throw open 155 new meal centres under Shramik Annapurna Yojana. Under this scheme, laborers are provided meal for Rs. 5. The new 155 meal centres shall be located across 17 districts. The Chief Minister will open these new meal centres from Ahmedabad based function. He will also visit Vaishnodevi circle based meal centre. The State government already runs 118 such meal centres as per a note released by the labor department. Out of new 155 centres, 49 shall be in Ahmedabad itself.

The government stated in a note that meal centres located at 118 Kadiya naka across 10 district cater over 27,000 meals for which in last two financial year Rs. 2502.36 lakh sum was spent by the State government. In case of more than 50 laborers at one single site, the centre reaches out to them on their desired locations. DeshGujarat